Escape the app context to call a global function

AppleScript
#1

I am using “Remote Buddy”. It lets me run applescript code, which apparently runs within RB’s context, i.e. I do not have to use ´tell app "Remote Buddy" to use its own classes and such.
Now, the problem is that I want to invoke the global open location function, but its code <<GURLGURL>> gets translated into the “Get URL” handler that RB itself offers.

How do I write my code so that it accesses the GURL handler on the global scope instead?

#2

You could always try a different tack:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"
use scripting additions

set theURLString to "http://forum.latenightsw.com/t/escape-the-app-context-to-call-a-global-function/693/1"
current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace()'s openURL:(current application's |NSURL|'s URLWithString:theURLString)
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#3

Didn’t think of using the ObjC Bridge. Works, but cumbersome.

So, that probably means that AppleScript has no language feature for accessing the parent scope. (such as “super of …”)

#4

A similar situation with PowerMail can be got round by telling any application which doesn’t implement a command using that code to perform it.

tell application "System Events" to open location "http://macscripter.net"

open location, by the way, is in the StandardAdditions.

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